We at The Listening Room are pleased to announce that we are the agency for the STAX Earspeakers in South Africa.
These are generally regarded as the "worlds best"and being electrostatic they are incredibly fast and detailed.
Electrostatic Technology
Electrostatic drivers consist of a very thin electrically charged diaphragm, typically stretched and coated polyethylene terephthalate (a unique STAX polymer formula) is used for its high tensile strength to create the membrane. This is suspended between two perforated metal plates (the electrodes), when an electrical sound signal is applied to the electrodes, creating an electrical field, the diaphragm is drawn towards one of the plates depending on the polarity of the field. Air is then forced through the perforations, when combined with the continuously fluctuating electrical signal driving the membrane a sound wave is generated.
Due to the extremely thin diaphragm membrane, which is only a few micrometers thick, the frequency response of electrostatic headphones usually extends far beyond the normal human hearing range of up to 20kHz. The high frequency response means that the low mid band distortion level is maintained right to the top of our audible frequency band. The peaks regularly seen in higher frequency regions with moving coil drivers is almost completely absent with the result being much more stable and accurate sound reproduction.
Electrostatic headphones are powered by a special amplifier that is required to create the signal to deflect the membrane and needs electrical potential in the range of 100 to 1000 volts, these are often referred to as energisers. With this amount of power in proximity to a user?s head the usual method of making this safe is to limit the possible fault current to a low value with resistors
Refer to the following for reviews -
www.stax.co.jp/
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/stax2/stax.html
www.stereophile.com/headphones/895
Call or mail me for more information
These are generally regarded as the "worlds best"and being electrostatic they are incredibly fast and detailed.
Electrostatic Technology
Electrostatic drivers consist of a very thin electrically charged diaphragm, typically stretched and coated polyethylene terephthalate (a unique STAX polymer formula) is used for its high tensile strength to create the membrane. This is suspended between two perforated metal plates (the electrodes), when an electrical sound signal is applied to the electrodes, creating an electrical field, the diaphragm is drawn towards one of the plates depending on the polarity of the field. Air is then forced through the perforations, when combined with the continuously fluctuating electrical signal driving the membrane a sound wave is generated.
Due to the extremely thin diaphragm membrane, which is only a few micrometers thick, the frequency response of electrostatic headphones usually extends far beyond the normal human hearing range of up to 20kHz. The high frequency response means that the low mid band distortion level is maintained right to the top of our audible frequency band. The peaks regularly seen in higher frequency regions with moving coil drivers is almost completely absent with the result being much more stable and accurate sound reproduction.
Electrostatic headphones are powered by a special amplifier that is required to create the signal to deflect the membrane and needs electrical potential in the range of 100 to 1000 volts, these are often referred to as energisers. With this amount of power in proximity to a user?s head the usual method of making this safe is to limit the possible fault current to a low value with resistors
Refer to the following for reviews -
www.stax.co.jp/
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/stax2/stax.html
www.stereophile.com/headphones/895
Call or mail me for more information